Staff Popular Post acapstick Posted July 9, 2015 Staff Popular Post Share Posted July 9, 2015 DEPRECATED THREAD The Photo tutorials listed below have been refreshed and moved. Please see this new thread or use the Affinity site Photo Desktop tutorials webpage In support of our fantastic photo editing app, please use this comprehensive and structured set of videos for accelerated learning! The video tutorials are available on Vimeo and YouTube via these links: Vimeo - http://affin.co/PhotoVids YouTube - http://affin.co/photoyt We now have a specific Beginners Series of videos tailored to absolute beginners, with a more manageable pacing and focus on concepts and straightforward procedures. They all include subtitles to aid understanding.The tutorial set includes:Beginners Series Opening & Saving - YouTube / Vimeo Layers - YouTube / Vimeo Adjustments - YouTube / Vimeo Filters - YouTube / Vimeo Exporting - YouTube / Vimeo Introduction Discover Affinity Photo Getting Started Technical Benefits Basics Document Setup Layer Concepts Layers Overview Live Filter Layers Scaling and Transforming Cutting Out Understanding DPI Accessing Help Transforming Document/Image Resizing Canvas Resizing Cropping: Practical Cropping: Aesthetic Straightening Images Cropping: Golden Spiral Cropping: Options Aligning Images Selections and Masking Making Selections Refining Selections Pixel Selections from Layers Quick Masks Mask Layers Exposure Merging Clipping vs Masking Vector Masking Using Adjustment Layers on Masks - YouTube / Vimeo Correction Adjustment Layers Levels Curves Shadows/Highlights Split Toning and Selective Colour LAB Colour Mode Defringing and Chromatic Aberration Live Perspective Haze Removal FFT Denoise Removing Lens Flares Changing Eye Colour Graduated ND Filter Effect Salvaging Underexposed Images Dual Perspective Correction Perspective Skew Correction - YouTube / Vimeo (New: 20th April) Retouching Cloning Inpainting Frequency Separation Liquify: Retouching Vector-Based Retouching Enhancing Landscapes/Architecture Vector Architecture: Worked Example Enhancing Camera Phone Photography Making Images Pop Revealing Sky Detail Bringing Out Water Detail Quick Inpainting Crooked Horizons - YouTube / Vimeo RAW Development Raw: Discover Develop Raw: Developing Images Raw: Overlays Raw: Redeveloping Images Raw: Noise Reduction Maximising Raw Latitude Custom Tone Curve Raw Development Quality 32-bit Raw Development - YouTube / Vimeo Raw Colour Quality Automatic Lens Corrections Raw: Recovering Overexposed Highlights Raw: Exposure Bias Getting Creative Lighting Creative Gradients Creative Black & White Sepia Images Brushes Blend Modes Blend Ranges Liquify Persona Sky Replacement Adding Borders Text: Branding/Watermarking Diffuse Glow Displacement Circular Bokeh Swirling Bokeh Simulating Ambient Occlusion Texturing with Blend Modes Creating Atmosphere Creating Light Beams Vector Lighting Simple Gradients Technicolor Emulation - YouTube / Vimeo Creative Painting Colour toning with shapes Infrared Emulation Radial Blur Regular Tone Mapping Compositing Landscapes Adding Extended Borders Creating Photo Collages Abstract Ideas #01 Abstract Ideas #02 Enhancing Low Light Trails Light Painting Compositing Tone Mapping Portraits HSL Tonal Separation - YouTube / Vimeo Orton Effect - YouTube / Vimeo Design Aids Snapshots Modifiers Designer/Photo Interworking Pixel Accurate Design Placing Documents Useful Keyboard Shortcuts Non Destructive Inpainting and Cloning Layer Creation Behaviour Layer Nesting Exporting 3D LUTs LUTs for Tonal Adjustments View Points Global Cloning Subtle Toning Multiple Colour Formats Scopes Curves Picker Non-Destructive Dodge & Burn Flexible Defringing Edge Detection for Masking Split & Mirror View Batch Processing Clone Sources Pixel Art Resize Direct PSD write-back (round tripping) Freehand Selection Tool Undo History Importing .abr Brushes Undo Brush with Snapshots Quick Toggling Panels - YouTube / Vimeo Light UI - YouTube / Vimeo Brush Stabilisation - YouTube / Vimeo Channels Channels Channels for Alpha Masking Channels: Creating/Storing Selections Editing Single Channels Channels: Greyscale Blending Channel Packing Filters Live Filter Layers (Also in Basics) Apply Image Apply Image: Equations Equations Filter Dust & Scratches Filter Halftone Scanlines Effect Mirror filter Diffuse Glow Filter Defeating Filter Limits Panoramas Panoramas Tricky Panoramas Panorama Distortion Correction HDR (High Dynamic Range) HDR: Merging & Tone Mapping HDR from one exposure - YouTube / Vimeo HDR: Tone Map Presets HDR: Panoramas HDR: Preprocessing HDR: Advanced Editing HDR: Ghosts Removal HDR: 32-bit Editing Focus Merging (Focus Stacking) Focus Merging Focus Merge Retouching Focus Merging Bracketed Exposures Live Stacking Maximum Stacking Big Stopper Effect Light Painting Blending Stacking: Long Exposure Simulation Stacking: Noise Reduction Stacking: Object Removal Stacking: Exposure Merging Stacking: Star Trail Effect Live Projections (360 editing, perspective projection) 360 Live Editing - YouTube / Vimeo 360 Advanced Editing 360 Retouching 360 Multiple Views 360 Roll Correction - YouTube / Vimeo Live Perspective Projection OpenEXR/32-bit OpenEXR Multichannel Import/Export OpenEXR Import Options Editing 32-bit 3D Renders OpenEXR: Using Alpha Channels & Association 3D Render/Texture Work Seamless Textures Clone Sources: Texture Creation Enhancing 3D Renders #01 Enhancing 3D Renders #02 Tone Mapping 3D Renders 3D Relighting with Normal Map Passes - YouTube / Vimeo Colour Management OpenColorIO Setup OpenColorIO Adjustment Soft Proofing Printing on Mac Printing on Windows Wide Colour Profiles vs sRGB - YouTube / Vimeo Macros Macros Macros: Equations Macros: Layer Behaviour Batch Processing with Macros Finishing Off Sharpening Selective Sharpening Exporting Export Compression Efficiency Plugins Installing Nik Plugins (macOS) Installing Nik Plugins (Windows) Installing & Using Nik Dfine Projects Nature Portrait Supermoon Product Shot Retouching #01 Nighttime Architecture Workflow - YouTube / Vimeo Portrait Retouching Workflow - YouTube / Vimeo Bonus Content Uplift Epic Skies (1.6 Bonus Content) - YouTube / Vimeo Windows Workflow videos In addition to the regular tutorials, we've also got some workflow videos shot on the Windows version of Photo that cover using a variety of features to edit an image to completion. These tend to be released on a more informal basis. Hadrian's Wall Tiled Building Portrait Retouching Monochromatic Architecture Canary Wharf Banded Demoiselle Please let us know about areas you think need covering, have problems with, don’t understand, or just tell us if we’re on the right or wrong track. Simply reply to this pinned topic.Have fun with Affinity Photo!Best wishes from the Affinity Documentation Team! jbreiner, Linslusen, fcanete and 121 others 119 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidMac Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 Looks terrific. Thanks! :) :) Applegreen, HardworkingT and TheRealFeRz 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrograde Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 Cheers Andy for all of these videos. They really help to introduce the basic concepts of Photo. TheRealFeRz and Applegreen 2 http://www.kevincreative.com https://www.behance.net/kevincreative https://dribbble.com/kevincreative https://www.instagram.com/kevincreative/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leafdancing Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 Enjoyed these a lot. Thank you! TheRealFeRz 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigpearl Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 do u guys have the exercise files for these tutorials sip12345 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HwyStar Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 Great tutorials! No fluff, straight to the point and concise. Good work! KiraPgek 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kew East Posted July 11, 2015 Share Posted July 11, 2015 Only issue is that some of us , who are a little older, still prefer written documentation. Will that be forthcoming? davcoll, jfw222, marfbum and 15 others 18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philou Posted July 11, 2015 Share Posted July 11, 2015 Thanks for these tutorials :-) Is there some tuto in French anywhere ??? Claude B. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geza Posted July 12, 2015 Share Posted July 12, 2015 Dear Acapstick, I appreciate your reply. It is the kind of documentation I was searching for. I will spend quality time reading the lines and absorbing the message. I am impressed by the response of the community that is positive and to the point. Best Regards, géza Cheryl2f, manu schwendener and Adargo70 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmac Posted July 12, 2015 Share Posted July 12, 2015 First I will say that I am very happy to see this software and impressed with what I have seen so far...with one exception. The lack of a complete user manual. I don't understand the idea among developers that their job begins and ends with the software and users will fumble and stumble and guess their way to a working knowledge of the program. Video tutorials are great and helpful. So is knowing I have a reference, provided by the developer, that explains what every tool, panel, and menu option is and what it does, as though the person reading it has never worked with this software before. This is especially true for a new software that hasn't been around long enough for authors to fill the void with How To books. From what I can see the information available under Affinity Photo Help is bare bones at best and some of the bones are missing. I spent a lot of time learning Illustrator and enough of Photoshop to do what I need and I am disgusted with Adobe's switch to subscription based software availability. So the discovery of Affinity Design and Photo is very exciting to me. Stumbling through video's and searching YouTube and Google for additional information to understand how to use your products...that is not so exciting. Pynk Freud, Rothgrafix, KiraPgek and 23 others 26 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlengfelder Posted July 12, 2015 Share Posted July 12, 2015 thanks a lot... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gutshot Posted July 12, 2015 Share Posted July 12, 2015 Hi, is there any change for a tutorial to create a HDR effect from a single image ? allyann, wwinter86 and ACW342 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wVanDyck Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 Purchased and installed Affinity Photo as soon as the word got out. Thank you so much for these tutorials! Bravo to the Affinity team!!! KiraPgek 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff acapstick Posted July 13, 2015 Author Staff Share Posted July 13, 2015 Many thanks for the positive replies so far. :) I thought i'd round up a few misc questions with a few answers.. - Exercise files. Our video tutorials are demonstrating the functionality only so we haven't set out to supply exercise files with them. You may be interested to know that we're looking at possible online training courses (Designer and Photo) which would be capable of providing supporting exercise files. - Written documentation. We are in the process of developing a handbook for Designer and Photo. I think Designer will come first. There are no plans to provide printed material, instead an iBook or PDF will be offered from the affinity.serif.com website. The dynamic nature of Affinity functionality would be difficult to capture in print form - a printed guide would be out of date very quickly and I think we'd end up with unhappy customers. - French. No plans for French narration on video tutorial. Of course, you do get French help as part of the app. Best regards Andy Capstick KLC1945, neversink, Akorn240 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff acapstick Posted July 13, 2015 Author Staff Share Posted July 13, 2015 Hi jmac, Sorry to hear that you're unhappy with the lack of a user manual. The focus has been predominantly on getting our Help and Video Tutorials correct. It has been essential that we reflect the UI and functionality in these deliverables up to release. The good news is that were giving more focus to planned handbooks now. I'm also concerned that you feel the Affinity Photo Help is not comprehensive enough or that it lacks information. You should find that all tools and panels are documented and can be accessed from the contents or searched for using the search box - if you're not seeing this please let me know. Could I ask if you would be able to point out some of these omissions and we'll have a look and get onto improving them. How do you learn best? Regards Andy KiraPgek 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maki Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 Hi, I have downloaded from resourec gradiant dream as zip file but I do not know how to import them and use them. Can someone help me. Thanks KiraPgek 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biskandar Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 I love it, still learning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
søren Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 Dear friends Thanks for the tutorial, but could they all be collected together in an App for so that the can be used as a manual pixelpixelpixel PIXEL and Pynk Freud 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drt56 Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 These are really useful very informative. Many thanks and keep them coming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhmdigital Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 These tutorials are excellent. Instructions are clearly spoken and well paced so that it is easy follow. They are broken down into appropriate sections with the length just right so that you don't forget what was demonstrated at the beginning. Full marks to Affinity again. Yes, I would like a manual at some stage but appreciate that as Andy wrote above that whilst the programmes are in their infancy it is too early to produce them. In the meantime I would be very happy with the tutorials,especially if they are added to. Online training courses sounds very interesting indeed; look forward to reading more about them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manu schwendener Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 ... - Written documentation. We are in the process of developing a handbook for Designer and Photo. I think Designer will come first. There are no plans to provide printed material, instead an iBook or PDF will be offered from the affinity.serif.com website. The dynamic nature of Affinity functionality would be difficult to capture in print form - a printed guide would be out of date very quickly and I think we'd end up with unhappy customers. ... Would it be possible to offer the written help chapters in AP as _one_ printable document while we wait for a handbook? gary1948, Adargo70, HaroldDah and 2 others 5 manuschwendener.ch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisw Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 :blink: In-house Affinity Photo Video Tutorials seems more catered to professionals & Photo Shop users. Very difficult for amateurs, totally new to photo editing software. I purchased this 2 weeks back and still not able grasp one single bit of your quick tutorials! Look forward to some more intuitive/detailed step by step tutorials for biginners. Claude B., Adargo70, ACW342 and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henchard Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 The execution of the launch is great. it really should catch Photoshop/Lightroom users attention for you appear to have the funding to break the monopoly. Wishing you success! PS: Please don't become an Adobe! :) gary1948 and Harster13 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henchard Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 Great launch! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasperD Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 Great launch indeed! :) Fantastic new product; I´m mighty impressed with it already (except for its speed with opening my Fujifilm X-Trans raw files). I am using Photoshop CS6, Photo Suite 9.5 (stand alone and plugins) and NIK components with all my raw files. It feels so good to have Affinity Photo on the HD already, instead of the Adobe monster. Especially liked one of the last comments in the presentation: ´No Subscription´. :P I have watched the tutorials in the list in the order given since last week. However, before starting section ´7. Develop´, I couldn´t resist and got Affinity Designer as well from the AppStore, yesterday evening. It will complement my already existing toolset quite nicely. Congrats with your 2015 Apple Design Award! Now back on topic: wouldn´t it be nice to have a list ordered / organised like published here, for that other product? Pinned here just like this one. I launched a search, could not find it alas. It´s so mighty convenient compared to just picking one from the main site! gary1948 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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